Men have an insatiable need for more and more or to go further and further

CDs lack the mental blocks to femininity

Obsession

Quirk

Manner

Hobby

Passion

Unusual but not abnormal

Desire to be pretty

Society needs TG people so societies has ever tightening gender roles until some people are pushed out to become transgendered therfore society creates TG people.

There is no such thing as gender so there are no transgendered.

Overwhelmed by female beauty

Mother fixation

Way of coping with the world

Spending to much time with girls

Just wanted to do something a little bit different.

Way to stand out

Shoe addiction run wild

Lingerie addiction run wild

Uncomfortable in your gender role.

The human factor

Humiliation

Want to be like a woman

Sissy

If it has anything to do with sex men want it

Primal instinct gone wild

Trying to figure out women

To be a man and do every thing a man has to do sometimes you have to be a girl.

Feeling like you missed out on something during childhood

Narcissism

It is an attitude

To look younger

It’s an indulgence

Drama

The existence of a parental pattern where the father is perceived as ranking higher than normal on the "feminine" characteristics of dependency and affiliation.

A strong, perhaps overwhelming attachment to a first son by certain mothers. Young boys, in contrast to young girls, must struggle to separate from the early symbiosis with the mother to establish their gender identity. Identification as a male, as being of the opposite sex from the mother, requires individuation and separation from her. "Depending on how and at what pace a mother allows her son to separate, this phase of merging with her will leave residual effects that may be expressed as disturbances in masculinity

Dr. Docter suggests that a large number of young boys are exposed to factors which lead to attraction to women's clothing, but most of them do not become cross dressers. However, those who do begin cross dressing encounter a unique set of social learning experiences and re-enforcements and develop fetishistic, partial cross dressing during ages 8 to 18 or so. Many of these partial, fetishistic cross dressers go on later to cross dress completely and to develop a "feminine self," i.e., a cross-gender identity.

"If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.~Val"

Brain Gender IdentityGender Identity is that innate sense of who you are in this world with reference to your sexuality and behavior, not necessarily corresponding to your genitalia and reproductive organs. Transgenders are atypical and “think” as the opposite gender. Certain areas of the brain have been shown to be sexually dimorphic. They are different in structure and numbers of neurons in males versus females. Protein Receptors for the sex hormones in different areas of the brain (limbic and anterior hypothalamic) must be present in sufficient numbers to receive those powerful hormones. There are androgen receptors (AR), Estrogen Receptors (ER), and Progesterone receptors (PRs). ARs or ERs are predominant at different times in different parts of the human brain. Hormone receptor genes have been identified in humans, which are responsible for sexually dimorphic brain differentiation in the hypothalamus. The groundwork in brain gender identity is gene-directed andtakes place by forming male and female hormone receptors in the brain before the gonads and hormones can influence them. Multiple genes acting in concert determine our sexual identity. The human brain continues to make neurons and synaptic neuronal connections throughout life. This contributes to Gender Role Behaviors making individuals in the continuum of gender identity. Gender behaviors must be differentiated from gender identity (Hines). Gender Identity cannot be predicted from anatomy (Reiner). Brain gender identity is determined very early in fetal development, but gender expression, expressed as behaviors requires hormonal, environmental, social and cultural interactions, which evolve with time. One cannot deny the profound effects of Testosterone, Estradiol and other steroids on genital differentiation in-utero or their effects on behavior from birth or the physical and mental cross gender changes caused by exogenous hormones, but genderidentity is determined before and persists in spite of these effects.Dr Ecker

Form of OCD.Form of sexual addictionKeeps me from going insane

Genetics

Stuttering gene theory

Hereditary gene

Genetic abnormality

Genetic disease

Grand mother theory

Evolutionary step forward

Evolutionary throw back

Hidden recessive gene

Gene tag

Damaged genetic code

Disturbed genetic timing

Result of breeding slaves to be docile

Genetic predisposition

Religious

Work of a demon

Work of the devil

Past life regression

Taken over by a spirit

Twin-spirits

Berdache

To attract same sex, sex partners

The devil made me do it

Perversion

Latent homosexuality

Voodoo

Coming Out Spiritually

Mental illness

Find their way back to the Goddess.

Symbolic beauty for the Goddess

Alien influence

Miscellaneous

Form of co-dependence

Vandalized love map

Form of OCD

Form of sexual addiction

GID (does not give cause)

Benjamin standards of care (does not give cause)

Disappointment in their relationship with their spouse lead mothers to transfer their need for intimacy and affection to their sons--overpowering them with their femininity. These pressures, as well as the remoteness from their father reported by so many of these men, may have stacked the cards, as it were, in favor of the feminine.

There may be a greater-than-average frequency of narcissistic personality disorder among the mothers. They drew their first sons into its vortex and made it difficult for them to individuate normally--especially when paternal influence was weak and remote. Where this pattern was coupled with a perturbed spousal relationship, the son may have been "triangled" into it in an attempt to assuage the resultant anxiety.

Mothers of transsexuals became passionately involved with their sons, merging with them intensively--too intensively to allow for normal individuation. The core gender identity of the transsexual, developed in the first year of so of life, remains female. An "excessively close and gratifying mother-infant symbiosis, undisturbed by father's presence, prevents a boy from adequately separating himself psychically from his mother's female body and feminine behavior.

No one in the medical community is certain what causes someone to betransgender, but Norman P. Spack, a pediatric endocrinologist atChildren's Hospital Boston, says the condition is not a mental illnessand should not be classified as such in the psychiatrists' bible, theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. "It hassomething to do with the wiring in the brain," Spack says. "It couldbe a gene that is expressed at a certain stage of fetal development orhormones that have gone awry during gestation."